In 1940, Iris James is the postmistress in coastal Franklin, Massachusetts. Iris knows more about the townspeople than she will ever say, and believes her job is to deliver secrets. Yet one day she does the unthinkable: slips a letter into her pocket, reads it, and doesn't deliver it.
Meanwhile, Frankie Bard broadcasts from overseas with Edward R. Murrow. Her dispatches beg listeners to pay heed as the Nazis bomb London nightly. Most of the townspeople of Franklin think the war can't touch them. But both Iris and Frankie know better...
And my issues begin:
- Iris James, postmistress insists on being called the postmaster throughout the entire book, so why is this the title?
- "coastal Franklin, Massachusetts", is in fact not coastal at all.
- "believes her job is to deliver secrets". She never once says this, or thinks this. In fact, it seems that she thinks her job is boring.
- And our thrilling plot device: "she does the unthinkable: slips a letter into her pocket, reads it, and doesn't deliver it." Too bad that NEVER EVEN HAPPENS!!! She is asked to put a letter aside and delivers it as promised, without ever opening it!!! Who the hell is getting paid to write these descriptions and why isn't it me!!!
- "Her dispatches beg listeners to pay heed as the Nazis bomb London nightly." Umm, not really. They are somewhat interesting stories of life in the Blitz but she never asks anyone to pay heed.
My review of this book is that it is horrible. The plot is bad, the characters are undeveloped and uninteresting. And overall is was rather depressing and trite. But more than all of that, the people who are trying to sell it don't even seem to know what it is about. I have read books expecting one thing and getting another but this book was simply NOT what is said it would be.
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